Who the hell coined the word leaked to describe info ?

[blues90]

I may be wrong but I think it was bush , it doesn't really matter .

What I refer to is the very use of language these days , we have acronyms gone wild too , you need a dictionary just to figure out what the hell someone is refering to , a few may be needed but it has gotten way out of control .

Water leaks , gas leaks , liquids leak but information ? Why not call it what it is , someone found tossed out info or stole it , someone blabbed or someone was looked to line their pockets or smear someone .

But leaked , no this is far from what happened .

We have an entirely new way of communicating things like LOL , first time I saw this it took me weeks to figure out what it was .

What's next , will we be back to grunting and waving a stick or banging on a hollow log to communicate ?

[PDittie]

1. Watergate

Plumbers. They fixed leaks.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

2. I think it's been around at least since Nixon

maybe Johnson

certainly not invented during the * presidency

[ret5hd]

3. MMMMMM...leeks...

[Warpy]

4. First time I can honestly remember hearing it

was from Nixon, who organized his thugs into "plumbers" to find out who was talking/leaking to the press.

Johnson may have used it, too, but my memory is a little hazier there.

[Benhurst]

5. According to the Oxford English Dictionary,

the use of leak for the disclosure of secret or confidential information goes back to at least 1859.

[blues90]

6. Shows how much I know

I guess it's the 30 odd years that I have been lost in . I recall gate being the word , perhaps bush just dragged the word back out or Rove did . I don;t recall it being used until bush .

[parasim]

7. I dunno, the word makes perfect sense to me...

when describing something that gets out that is not supposed to. Like a hole in a bucket and water leaks out. Not supposed to, but it does, so the hole must be plugged to keep the water from leaking out. Same thing with sensitive information. Perfectly apt analogy to me... and it's been around as long as I have been, which is almost 50 years.

I know what you mean, though about understanding the parlance of our times. It can be daunting at times, particularly with the acronyms. However, when I discovered that typing in define: whatever into Google brings up a tidy little list of definitions of the word "whatever" found on the web, getting in step with current language has become much easier.

[The Gunslinger]

8. What is typically called the truth

is called a leak by this administration.